ooooooooh, here’s the new trailer for La Sombra Prohibida (The Forbidden Shadow for us yanks), the second film in the The Valdemar Legacy written and directed by José Luis Alemán. Of course the sweet filling here is the appearance of the great old on himself, Cthulhu towards the end. Based on the trailer, this film looks significantly less cheesy than most Lovecraft-inspired films.

Finally, there’s a children’s cartoon for those of you who have little ones that you want to grow up into demon worshipping occultists. The Adventure’s of Lil’ Cthulhu by TheZebu has our beloved (not-so) dark master waking up from his nap under sea in the city of R’lyeh and romping about with his buddies on adventures across space and time. It’s a playful, tongue in cheek approach to the Cthulhu Mythos and guaranteed to brighten anyone’s day.

This remix of Jon McNaughton’s oft-mocked painting One Nation Under God has been making it way through the intertubes the last couple of days. Personally, I dig this rendition with the Lovecraft iconagraphy—with a smidge of They Live thrown in for good measure—much more than McNaughton’s uber-right-wing original. You can see the full image here. I haven’t been able to track down the original artist, one link pointed right back to McNaughton’s own site. If you know who the original Continue »

It sounds like Guillermo Del Toro is still working on his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. In a recent interview Del Toro hinted that he’s using The Hobbit to perfect the visual/creature effects that he intends to use in AtMoM. Sweet! via